ABSTRACT
This chapter delineates how, in the adventure of psychoanalysis, something called "transference" should have appeared—appeared and stayed. It shows that transference is a journey and not a static affair. The most serious attempt at theorising transference after S. Freud was no doubt that of Jacques Lacan who re-centred transference on the question of knowledge, when, after Freud, a wave of "feelings" seemed to have overwhelmed many psychoanalysts. In the early 1950s Jacques Lacan started a practice of teaching the basis of which were Freud's texts and the experience of psychoanalysis. Lacan's effort was to elaborate what the crucial principles of psychoanalysis were and how they were articulated to each other. What Lacan called transference is the supposition of the analysand that there is some knowledge that concerns him, of which the analyst becomes the "location"; a place that the analyst sustains.
